Clearly they moved Zen 2 to E3 because Navi is such a disappointment.
I don't know how or why offering two SKUs f the same thing with the only difference being the presence of a disc drive is muddying waters...
In Australia yes....Clearly they moved Zen 2 to E3 because Navi is such a disappointment.
Is it 8TF Monday yet?
? They r talking about a hypothetical case Sony already confirmed 2 times ps5 has disk drive
In the 2018FY, 37% of Sony's game sales were digital. So yeah, it might be a bit soon to go all digital right now but when it gets to 80% or 85%? It's not worth it to design your whole console with this huge disk drive sitting there right in the middle of it and making things a lot less elegant and more expensive. At some point, you just have to go with the majority, make a diskless console and maybe sell an add-on drive for that 15%-20 % of customers.
it wont be that high, for the next 10, 15 years. you will see.
We talked about the rumor of the lower tier Xbox having no disk drive.
If Microsoft is willing to go diskless in one SKU in 20219, there is a good chance that in 2027-28 when the next-next-gen comes out they will be going with mostly diskless SKUs or even all of them while offering some kind of external solution, just like their HD-DVD thing :)
Oh ok got it.
that is because MS are very US centric. sony have a world wide focus, and in many places world wide, physical media dominates hard.
That would be stupid, in my opinion.
Possibly this is the idea. Digital purchases tend to stay higher than physical many times.
Going with no drive can help them cut the price by ~50$, that is more important than a disk drive. I'm sure that they can sell an external disk drive for 70$.
The drive housing is pretty large- they could use the same motherboard in both, but make the non-optical version sleeker with a much smaller footprint. If you look at the current PS4 Slim tear down, the optical drive takes up an absolutely huge amount of room (almost 1/4 of the console).
A UHD disc drive will knock off $35 from the BOM. After 10M sales of that SKU $350M in savings..... there is nothing long term about that, that's an immediate benefit. And that holds true throughout the course of the generation because even at $35 a pop that will be the cost of that component bottoming out. And they don't have to do a completely different design...
Technically, even the XB1 launched with only one SKU..... and if anything the XB360and PS3 proved that having multiple SKUs can work.
Again,it doesn't have to look different. And they don't have to redesign the motherboard. It shul be from a pure price or use case perspective. Nothing me nothing less.
Nope. Just the usual "what if Sony copy what MS is doing?" Hypothetical.
Not counting the separate thread about the Cell 2 raytracing cores.
The specific research that was publicized had no latency reduction at all, it saves bandwidth use, with the of added complexity of lock-step deterministic simulation on client, something that doesn't work at all on majority of game tech stacks today.
